Sujata Sharma is an Indian structural biologist, writer, biophysicist and a professor at the Department of Biophysics of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi.
She is known for her studies in the fields of protein structure, drug design and drug resistance of bacteria.
Her studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 167 of them.
She is also the author of the books, The Secret of the Red Crystals, an autobiographical account of her days in AIIMS Delhi.
and "A Dragonfly's purpose", which is an autobiographical account of her recovery from an autoimmune disease, Guillain Barre Syndrome .
The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded her the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for her contributions to biosciences, in 2011.
She is also a recipient of the Woman Scientist Award of the Biotech Research Society of India and the National Young Woman Bioscientist Award of the Department of Biotechnology which she received in 2006 and 2007 respectively.